Percy Benjamin MAILEY

Regimental number85
Place of birthRedfern, New South Wales
SchoolStanmore Public School, New South Wales
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationDairy farmer
Address43 Yule Street, Petersham, New South Wales
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation20
Next of kinFather, Charles Hugh Mailey, 43 Yule Street, Petersham, New South Wales
Previous military serviceServed in the Compulsory Cadets.
Enlistment date8 April 1915
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll7 April 1915
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name18th Battalion, A Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/35/1
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board Transport A40 Ceramic on 25 June 1915
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll18th Battalion
Other details from Roll of Honour CircularWounded on Anzac Beach by a shell from the Turk's Gun known as 'Beachy Bill'.
FateDied of wounds 1 October 1915
Place of death or woundingGallipoli, Turkey
Age at death20
Place of burialAt Sea
Commemoration detailsThe Lone Pine Memorial (Panel 62), Gallipoli, Turkey

The Lone Pine Memorial, situated in the Lone Pine Cemetery at Anzac, is the main Australian Memorial on Gallipoli, and one of four memorials to men of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Designed by Sir John Burnet, the principal architect of the Gallipoli cemeteries, it is a thick tapering pylon 14.3 metres high on a square base 12.98 metres wide. It is constructed from limestone mined at Ilgardere in Turkey.

The Memorial commemorates the 3268 Australians and 456 New Zealanders who have no known grave and the 960 Australians and 252 New Zealanders who were buried at sea after evacuation through wounds or disease. The names of New Zealanders commemorated are inscribed on stone panels mounted on the south and north sides of the pylon, while those of the Australians are listed on a long wall of panels in front of the pylon and to either side. Names are arranged by unit and rank.

The Memorial stands over the centre of the Turkish trenches and tunnels which were the scene of heavy fighting during the August offensive. Most cemeteries on Gallipoli contain relatively few marked graves, and the majority of Australians killed on Gallipoli are commemorated here.

Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
86
Family/military connectionsBrother: 1066 Sapper Arthur Charles MAILEY MM, 2nd Divisional Signal Company, returned to Australia, 22 July 1917.
Other details

War service: Egypt, Gallipoli

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal